Rhys Priestland was preferred to the veteran fly-half Stephen Jones among seven changes to the Wales lineup for their Pool D match with Fiji on Sunday.

Jones was sidelined by a calf muscle injury and missed the first two matches against South Africa and Samoa. He was fit to mark his 101st cap in a Wales tournament record 81-7 win over Namibia on Monday, but the 24-year-old Priestland has regained the No10 jersey and will be reunited with Mike Phillips.

Warren Gatland, the Wales coach, also retained the centre Scott Williams, who scored three tries against Namibia, the prop Gethin Jenkins, the flanker Ryan Jones, and the full-back Lee Byrne.

Huw Bennett and Adam Jones returned in the front row and Luke Charteris was back to lock with Bradley Davies in the only changes in the forwards. The inside-centre Jamie Roberts and the winger George North were also recalled, while Leigh Halfpenny was switched to the left wing.

The lock Alun Wyn Jones and the centre Jonathan Davies were named among the reserves after starting in the previous three Pool D matches.

There is an added edge to Sunday's match with Fiji's defeat of Wales at the last World Cup to advance to the quarter-finals and send the Welsh home still rankling among the Wales players, who need to win to ensure qualifying for the last eight.

Fiji have retained only five players from the loss to Samoa and handed the captaincy to the No8 Netani Talei.

Only the hooker Sunia Koto, the lock Leone Nakarawa and Talei keep their places among the forwards, while the fly-half Nicky Little and Gaby Lovobalavu, who has moved out to centre, were the only backs in the starting lineup beaten by Samoa 27-7 at Eden Park last weekend.